Abstract
This work shows the results achieved using two prototypes of monitoring and processing systems that are being developed with the aim of increasing the safety and the security in harbours.
The first one has been designed to help port communities (port authorities, pilots) to manage harbour waterside (optimization of ship’s navigation and cargo, dock performances, boat moorings, refloating of stranded ships, water quality control). Starting from monitoring the sea level and meteorological parameters in harbours, it can help port communities decide, e.g., when a ship with a certain draft can enter or leave the port, or which the best route to follow is (port safety).
The second system, instead, deals with the monitoring of the Earth’s magnetic field in port areas for harbour protection purposes, in particular to detect the possible presence of underwater intruders, e.g. divers swimming in restricted areas (port security).
The processing procedures of both systems are based not on commercial software, but on applications under development by the research team the author belongs to, by using C# and C++ languages and Matlab environment.
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data have been measured by means of meteo-mareographic stations belonging to Italian National Tide-gauge Network, managed by ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
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Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank ISPRA for providing meteo-mareographic data acquired in Italian harbours, in particular in La Spezia and Livorno. These studies were possible thanks to funding from the Italian Ministry of Defence, European Defence Agency (for harbour protection) and several Italian Port Authorities (for port navigation safety), in particular Port Authority of Livorno. He also thanks: Dr. O. Faggioni for its cooperation in these studies; Wass SpA (now Leonardo SpA) and SkyTech Srl for their collaboration in the development of the magnetic system; Dr. D. Leoncini for his contribution in software applications development; Italian Navy for concession of areas, men and naval vehicles to perform several sea trials.
The author also thanks the three anonymous reviewers, whose comments and suggestions helped improve this work.
Part of these activities was conducted when the author was at OGS – National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (Trieste, Italy).
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Soldani, M. (2020). Geomatics for Port Safety and Security. In: Parente, C., Troisi, S., Vettore, A. (eds) R3 in Geomatics: Research, Results and Review. R3GEO 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62800-0_8
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